Objectives

at the end of this module the student must be able to: Define the environmental, economic and cultural causes that condition human health; Know the emerging diseases that affect the community or groups of people (eg alcoholism, smoking, etc.); Identify appropriate prevention and intervention tools to ensure recovery and reintegration into society.

Channels

NESSUNA CANALIZZAZIONE

FERDINANDO ROMANO FERDINANDO ROMANO  

Programme

• Historical and methodological notes
• Characters, statistical and collective units; the modalities of the character; the statistical sample
• Tabulation of data
• Frequency distributions: absolute frequencies, relative and percentages
• Joint distribution of two characters
• Graphical representations: bar chart / tapes, cakes, cartogram, trend line, frequency histogram, frequency polygon, scatter plot, age pyramids, infographics, box-plots
• Averages and position indexes: fashion, median, quantiles, arithmetic mean, weighted arithmetic average
• Variability measures: interquartile difference, variance, standard deviation, coefficient of variation
• Analysis of the association of two quantitative characters
• Continuous probability distributions: normal or Gauss distribution, standardized normal distribution
• Parameter estimation: point estimates and estimates by interval, confidence intervals for the mean (known variance), confidence intervals for the mean (variance incognita)
• Main measures in epidemiology

Adopted texts

Lantieri PB, Risso D, Ravera G. Statistica medica. Mc Graw Hill. 2004
Bland M. Statistica Medica APOGEO 2009
Norman GR, Streiner DL. Biostatistica. Tutto quello che avreste voluto sapere. Casa Editrice Ambrosiana 2015
Ripoli A. Statistica medica facile. Alice nel paese del p-value1 Il Pensiero Scientifico. 2009
Materiale scaricabile da MOODLE: Diapositive delle lezioni e delle esercitazioni

Exam modes

multiple answers tests

ROBERTO CARNEVALE ROBERTO CARNEVALE   Teacher profile

Course sheet
  • Academic year: 2018/2019
  • Curriculum: Curriculum unico
  • Year: Second year
  • Semester: Second semester
  • Parent course:
    1035016 - NURSING BASED ON EFFICIENCY TESTS
  • SSD: MED/42
  • CFU: 3
Activities
  • Attività formative di base
  • Ambito disciplinare: Scienze propedeutiche
  • Lecture (Hours): 36
  • CFU: 3.00
  • SSD: MED/42